Engaging Stakeholders For Sustainable Impact
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Session Description
Stakeholder engagement is critical to the success of any social venture, yet exceedingly difficult to “get right”. This interactive workshop will examine the multi-faceted topic of stakeholder engagement spanning beneficiaries to customers to board members to employees. This session will provide practitioners with concrete tools and resources to help them analyse and improve the extent to which stakeholder engagement supports or hinders their organisation’s social impact.
Time & Location
Time:
10:45 - 12:15, Thursday, March 26, 2009
BST
Speakers
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Speaker
Partner, Virtue Ventures LLC
Vincent Dawans is a Partner at Virtue Ventures, LLC. Building on extensive experience in the private sector, Vincent supports nonprofits and social enterprises to improve performance through the strategic implementation of cost-effective technology and streamlined systems. Vincent has worked with Dow Corning Europe; Future Enterprises Inc., business training and technology training company; and Plural Inc., a technology and management-consulting firm
to internet based companies, where his clients included Nasdaq Online,
Foodfit.com, and
Keepmore.com. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and master’s degree in Business Management from ICHEC Business School.
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Speaker
Principal, Lindsay Miller Consulting
Lindsay Miller is an independent strategy and organizational development consultant, supporting nonprofits, foundations, and social enterprises through strategic and business planning and multistakeholder collaborative design and facilitation. She serves as a Project Manager for Public Equity Group, a boutique consulting firm specializing in racial equity strategy, and is a member of the Flexible Leadership Awards consultant network. She has worked with clients spanning the social service, healthcare, K-12 and higher education, legal services, food manufacturing, waste management, and prison reform sectors. Recent clients include the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison, Next Gen Sector Partnerships, Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project, Emory University, Mt Adams Institute, Tofurky, and United We Dream.
Lindsay graduated cum laude from the University of Oregon’s Clark Honors College with a BA in Fine Arts, a BS in General Science, and a minor in Spanish. She went on to earn an MBA from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, where she attended as a Skoll Scholar in Social Entrepreneurship. Lindsay is based in Hood River, Oregon and enjoys outdoor pursuits of all kinds and spending time with her husband and two daughters.
